As a long-time user of Open/FreeBSD & Linux & solaris/opensolaris.... The point about # of devs is true - linux is the new nix reference platform (well, not ne

As a long-time user of Open/FreeBSD & Linux & solaris/opensolaris.... The point about # of devs is true - linux is the new nix reference platform (well, not new anymore I guess). It used to be SunOS/Solaris. OpenBSD has a small number of committers and developers more because of the attitude of it's community and head honcho - OpenBSD is fantastic at what it's fantastic at, but the developer community is very much "If you don't like the way we do it, F* off" (which is perfectly fine...no moral judgement implied). FreeBSD on the other hand doesn't get enough cred... it's solid, it's constantly incrementally improved. It's a single distribution with a very focused core - so while it doens't have all the fire and brimstone of linux, those FreeBSD guys have been cranking out solid, wonderful, well engineered and well documented code for a long, long time. I'm often on the brink of wishing I could switch an enterprise to FreeBSD completely - the commercial support isn't all there, but from a purist point of view it's pretty much THE best free *nix out there, and I'm never really sure why it doesn't get the same focus linux does - I suppose it's just the way things went and media hype about the GPL.